CONTENTS

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis addressed a rally in the Attica town
of Aspropirgos on Monday evening, stressing that "our criterion is one
alone, the interest of the country. The interest of all the Greeks, we
gave this promise and we are keeping our promise."

The prime minister stressed that handling the consequences of the
international economic crisis is a national goal and his main
priority.

Karamanlis said that "I chose to serve my country with responsibility,
this is how I realise my duty. This is the path that I have been
following throughout my entire political course. I am continuing on
this path. The path of responsibility, the path of perspective, the
path of the struggle for the country."

"All of us in the government are focusing our efforts on our country's
most painless exit from the international economic crisis, all of us in
the government are coordinating our actions to promote a second wave of
changes and reforms," he added.

Karamanlis also criticised the main opposition PASOK party and its
leader George Papandreou. He said the main opposition party "has
refused and is refusing whatever understanding and whatever assumption
of responsibility and is refusing to state a position on the country's
crucial issues, while remaining pinned down on refusal even before the
biggest postwar challenge, that is confronting the international
economic crisis."

Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou addressed a dinner
given in his honour on Monday evening by the Conference of the
Economist magazine and underlined the need for the implementation of a
new growth model in Greece, Europe and the world.

"Once, the European Union used to say 'never again war', but today it
could say 'never again barbarism which is brought by inequality,
poverty, climatic change, the trade of human beings, refugee status,
illiteracy and the trade of weapons of mass destruction' and constitute
a reply to the handling of globalisation," he said.

Papandreou also referred to his party's programme which "includes
immediate measures to support the economy and big reforms to overcome
the crisis."

The PASOK leader further said that the national strategy for developing
the Greek economy are the priorities related to the implementation of
"green development", referring to investments in renewable energy
sources and new technologies that are environmentally friendly.

Lastly, Papandreou said that the precondition for all this is "a
lawabiding state that will be at the service of the citizen with
institutions that will respect him and protect him and will function
with transparency and accountability."